The article establishes a new generalization concerning domains from which extraction is possible. Taking as the starting point the well-known difference between NPs and VPs regarding extraction, where extraction from Complex NPs is not possible while extraction from Complex VPs is possible, the article argues that the former represents a pervasive pattern found in many contexts, the latter bei...

this paper investigates the nature of absolutive case and the syntactic mechanisms underlying its licensing. to this end, two recent minimalist approaches to the syntactic derivation of ergative structure will be introduced. drawing on evidence from the syntactic derivation of clauses with intransitive complex predicates in kurdish, it will be established that the absolutive case is checked by ...

the acquisition of argument structures has been studied by a variety of second language acquisition scholars within the past two decades (atay, 2010; can, 2009; chay, 2006, & kras, 2007, among others). in the present study, ‘predicate’ as the most substantial element of a sentence is investigated. there are three english verb-types which seem to be more problematic for persian efl learners:...

This study is aimed at explaining morpho-lexical and morpho-syntactic patterns in Domani, as two basic features that are related to the lexicon grammar of this substrate, contact, secret endangered Romani dialect. The data was obtained by conducting face-to-face interviews with Doms living Van Ağrı-Doğubayazıt regions Turkey making use their oral narratives. recordings made between 2017 2019 ov...

Do principles of language processing in the brain affect the way grammar evolves over time or is language change just a matter of socio-historical contingency? While the balance of evidence has been ambiguous and controversial, we identify here a neurophysiological constraint on the processing of language that has a systematic effect on the evolution of how noun phrases are marked by case (i.e....

In this study the technique of semantic clause coordination in 20 Daghestanian languages (DLs) is explored. (Semantic) clause coordination is a (usually biclausal) construction activating cognitively conjugate events occurring simultaneously or sequentially. In accordance with that, there is typically coreference between participants of the two clauses, e.g. The boyi beat the girl and Øi went a...